VATICAN CITY — A man tried to jump into Pope Benedict XVI's uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience today and held onto it for a few seconds befor...
He spent 19 years in coma
WARSAW, Poland— A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks "the world is prettier now" than ...
U.S. vows to keep looking
BAGHDAD — The U.S. command in Baghdad insisted it would continue the search for two abducted U.S. soldiers despite the release of a video Monday...
Russia opposes shield in Europe
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — President Bush and the Czech Republic's leaders today defended plans to base part of a U.S. missile shield here d...
It's major blow to Bush's plans
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantánamo detainee accused of chauffeuring Osama bin...
Gates visits leader Karzai
KABUL, Afghanistan — Iranian weapons have begun flowing into Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today, but he and Afghan Presiden...
BAGHDAD — U.S.-led forces have control of fewer than one-third of Baghdad's neighborhoods despite thousands of extra troops nearly four months into a security crackdown,...
At least 3 die, hundreds hurt
BEIJING — A strong earthquake shook a hilly southwestern Chinese region near the border with Laos early Sunday, killing at least three peopl...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A boat crossing a river in Afghanistan's most dangerous province sank on Saturday, and at least 60 people were killed, including Taliban militants, ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least one U.S. warship bombarded a remote, mountainous village in Somalia where Islamic militants had set up a base, officials in the northern re...
